Walter Scott Quotes

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.
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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
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As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
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I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.
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There is no abiding success without commitment.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.